Everyone applauded. In everyone's opinion, these surrendered Japanese soldiers deserved to be beaten to death.

Comrades from the Eighth Route Army should not stop the common people.

At this time, continuous explosions suddenly came from the street, and whistles for the urgent gathering of the Japanese city defense troops sounded everywhere.

The people in the teahouse suddenly became confused. Shopkeeper Dong said: "Don't panic, everyone. We are not worth money. If you want to find trouble, we will go to the Japanese. Don't panic, everyone, and continue drinking tea!"

At this time, someone ran in and said: "Oh no, the boilers, blast furnaces, and oxygen preparation workshops of the steel plant have exploded."

Soon after, someone came and shouted: "The boiler of the thermal power station exploded."

At this time, another group of Japanese soldiers passed by in a hurry.

A hawker ran in and said: "The Japanese have looted several bank vaults."

A series of explosions followed, and the whole city seemed to be lively.

Everyone looked out the window and saw that the sky was full of leaflets from the Eighth Route Army.

At this time, more Japanese soldiers came out of the military camp and rushed to the north of the city. Puppet police continued to join in along the way, and pedestrians on the street were driven into shops along the way.

The army marched out in waves.

After everyone inquired, they found out that the serial explosions in the city attracted the attention of the Japanese and puppet troops. Unexpectedly, the airport in the north of the city was ransacked by the Eighth Route Army. Even Okabe's special plane was taken away by the Eighth Route Army, and the entire place was temporarily under martial law.

When everyone heard this, they wanted to laugh, but they didn't dare to say anything for fear of being caught by the Japanese and puppet troops who were under martial law outside.

General Okabe, who was originally in the city, planned to attend the Japan-China Friendship Meeting with Iwamatsu, the traitors in Taiyuan City, some local tyrants, evil gentry, and traitorous businessmen.

After hearing this series of news, and then receiving a special letter of thanks and gifts from Li Yunlong, Okabe, an old devil, turned green.

After Okabe, who was originally the most important thing in taking office as a new official, came to power, through a series of military deployments and actions, he first recaptured a large number of key transportation lines from the Eighth Route Army, and then successfully captured five cities including Licheng.

It can be said to be high-spirited.

Thought that the matter was settled, Okabe, an old Japanese soldier, even privately believed that perhaps it was because he had given too much of a deterrent to the Eighth Route Army that the Eighth Route Army had retreated in the face of difficulties and temporarily avoided the front line.

Who would have thought a slap in the face could happen so quickly?

Taiyuan City, which was the headquarters of the First Army of the North China Front specially operated by the Japanese army, was unexpectedly attacked and destroyed by the Eighth Route Army in such a blatant manner.

The commander of the First Army, Yoshio Iwamatsu, who accompanied Okabe on a tour of the city, looked even more ugly.

This is the territory under his jurisdiction, and it is also the home base of his First Army.

But in the final analysis, if Okabe hadn't insisted on pro-people policies, promoted Sino-Japanese friendship, and even relaxed the security of the entire Taiyuan City, the Eighth Route Army might not have been able to infiltrate Taiyuan City so easily to carry out these small actions.

Okabe also didn't expect that these Eighth Route Army would be so rampant, and they would take advantage of the lax defense of Taiyuan City to launch a sneak attack

It's a pity that the China-Japan Friendship Association has reached a critical moment.

But being slapped in the face by the Eighth Route Army seems to be a big joke.

The friendly faces of the little devils could no longer be hidden soon. Under the orders of Okabe and Iwamatsu, Taiyuan City immediately strengthened its vigilance and re-entered a special alert state.

All major city gates are tightly closed, and people coming in and out must undergo strict searches and interrogations.

Soon, the leaflets distributed by the Eighth Route Army that had sneaked into the city were brought to Okabe and Iwasatsu by the Japanese signal corps.

Okabe's nose almost turned crooked when he saw the propaganda leaflet, which was written in Chinese and even had a Japanese translation attached. It hit the nail on the head and exposed the cruelty and hypocrisy of the Japanese army.

He knew this was the Eighth Route Army's counterattack.

They themselves promoted Sino-Japanese friendship in an attempt to paralyze the Chinese people in the occupied areas and appease their anti-Japanese sentiments. The Eighth Route Army took the opportunity to carry out sabotage and sing the opposite tune.

As the base camp of the First Army in Shanxi, Taiyuan City, a heavily guarded nest, could be so easily infiltrated by the Eighth Route Army, let alone other surrounding counties, towns and towns.

Sure enough, Yoshio Iwamatsu and Okabe soon received news that the pro-Japanese friendship conferences held in major counties, towns and towns around Taiyuan City, as well as various propaganda campaigns, were also sabotaged by the Eighth Route Army.

The so-called Sino-Japanese friendship cannot be promoted at all.

In the end, the old Japanese soldier Okabe left Taiyuan full of anger.

He knew that he had already lost the first game between the two sides.

"In just a few years, these damn Eighth Route Army have actually infiltrated the security area under the jurisdiction of our Empire of Japan to this extent? It is simply riddled with holes!"

Okabu attributed all this to Okamura's mistakes in controlling the situation in North China when he was still in office.

"If even stable security areas cannot guarantee stability, let alone those quasi-security areas and Eighth Route Army base areas."

"In this way, we are promoting the goodwill policy in the open, and these eight groups are secretly causing trouble. This road will not work at all!"

The Japanese Chief of Staff on the side probably still remembered how highly Okamura thought of him when he was in power, so he said out of fairness: "General, when General Okamura was here, he also tried to implement pro-people policies in North China in order to further pursue the interests of the people."

Gain the stability of the public security area.

It's just that these native-born Eighth Route Army soldiers always get twice the result with half the effort in terms of political propaganda, which is far better than us outsiders.

If you are not of my race, your heart must be different!

No matter how good our publicity is on the surface, I'm afraid it can't compare to the anti-Japanese propaganda and lobbying carried out by these Eighth Route Army secretly."

Although Okabe was not happy to hear this, he still nodded. This was a fact. He had already lost one round and could only place his hope on the next round.

Follow Okabe’s deployment.

Since the Eighth Route Army has spoken openly, during this period, major base areas have entered a period of rest and reorganization, suspending large-scale operations with other Japanese forces.

Okabe was also eager to use this period of time to quickly recover from the losses suffered by the North China Front in the May Day raids.

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So they gathered their troops and only firmly controlled some important transportation lines, as well as some counties and towns with high military value.

Unnecessary large-scale raids will only result in the loss of troops and generals in the Eighth Route Army base areas. Okabe ordered that troops from all regions were not allowed to enter the Eighth Route Army base areas at will. They only carried out local clearing campaigns in some quasi-public security areas and implemented the Baojia system and the continuous sitting system.<

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Further consolidate internal defense and guard against Eighth Route Army penetration.

But in fact, the effect is not much.

To put it more carefully, these strategies adopted by Okabe are basically leftovers from Okamura’s tricks.

However, they were all exploited by the Eighth Route Army and quickly lost their effectiveness. All the deployments to deal with the Eighth Route Army were only in name only.

On the contrary, Okabe used the North China flying team to continuously launch raids against some weak bases of the Eighth Route Army that lacked air defense systems, and made certain progress.

The little devil's flying troops deliberately avoided some of the more powerful Eighth Route Army bases in the Iron Triangle and Taihang bases, and launched air strikes against some weak Eighth Route Army bases, destroying various military buildings, various factories, workshops, and even farmland and crops in the Eighth Route Army bases.

Wait.

Finally, it caused some damage to the Eighth Route Army base area.

It's a pity that the proud look on the old devil's face did not last long before it solidified.

First, a team. Some Eighth Route Army troops with air defense capabilities in the Taihang base area were secretly mobilized to lurk in some base areas that did not have air defense capabilities. They launched a counterattack against the Japanese flying units that attacked the air, causing a lot of damage to the Japanese fighter planes.

Next.

The end of August.

The generals of the Eighth Route Army Air Force headed by Kong Jie formulated a plan to secretly attack Japanese military airports in Datong, Taiyuan, Zhangjiakou, Baoding, Jinan and other military airports with the Eighth Route Army Air Force.

According to the plan proposed by Kong Jie.

Targeting the Japanese military airports in various places, after searching for enough information through intelligence lines in advance, aviation units were dispatched to launch secret air raids.

The method of attack is a combination of falsehood and falsehood, and a combination of true and false.

Sometimes they use fake planes made of wood or iron to scare the Japanese, and sometimes they directly carry out live bombings. If the sneak attack is successful, they can evacuate immediately.

With such tactics of true and false, false and true, claiming to the east and attacking in the west, and hiding needles in the air, the Japanese defenders at the major airports in North China were all on extra heightened alert and were in panic all day long.

Under the air raids that followed no rules at all, the losses at one or two Japanese airports may not be significant, but when added up to the entire area, it is quite exaggerated.

So much so that after Okabe, an old devil, received several reports of the Eighth Route Army's secret aviation unit air raids on imperial military airports, he couldn't help but slumped down on his chair and couldn't recover for a long time.

"The strength of the aviation force secretly built by the Eighth Route Army has further grown!"

This is the conclusion reached by Okabe.

"They even dare to use aviation power to compete with the flying troops of the Empire of Japan!"

Okabe had a headache. He could guess that the rapid growth of the Eighth Route Army's secret aviation force, in addition to the fighter planes seized and stolen from the Imperial Airport, must also be related to the reinforcements from various countries.

The US military, the British army, including the Soviet Union, these allies who stand on the same front as China will definitely provide them with secret reinforcements.

Originally before the May Day raids, and further back, the Japanese army, with its absolute air supremacy, could directly cut off the international aid transportation lines from allied countries to China.

This includes not only the Burma Highway in southern China, but also the air routes for aid from international countries to China.

However, from the Pacific War to the Southeast Asian War, the outbreaks occurred one after another.

Coupled with the disastrous defeat of the May Day raids in North China, the area occupied and controlled by the Eighth Route Army base areas, especially those dominated by the Eighth Route Army based in the Taihang base area, has been expanded quite exaggeratedly.

Various Japanese military airports were attacked by the Eighth Route Army troops one after another. Even three large military airports in Shanghai were attacked by air forces secretly built by the Eighth Route Army.

At this point, the stability of the Japanese air supremacy, especially the air supremacy in the interior of China, has been severely impacted.

The Japanese army has no time to take into account how many international aid routes, including international aid aviation lines, there are in the rear area of ​​the Eighth Route Army base area.

Especially the rapid rise of the aviation force secretly built by the Eighth Route Army.
To be continued...